I found a broken crystal paperweight in an abandoned house once - I took 2-rolls of film from various angles and positions but none of them looked right. I am convinced there was a picture there but I can't put it together.

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are "camera lies," inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in a distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a "naturalistic" medium of rendition and that striving for "naturalism" in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.